A garden harvest in various colors.
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Tomatillos and Tomatoes
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Zinnias
There is always room for more zinnias, which give us some of the most outrageously bright colors in the annual garden.
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Coleus
Coleus scutellarioides is that plant with the brightly colored leaves you see planted wherever a shady patch needs brightening up. The number and variety of cultivars will make your head spin, but here we present a manageable five from gardens in Shadyside and from Phipps Conservatory.
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Tasselflowers
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Zinnias
Back in the dark ages of “bedding plants,” which is to say the 1970s and 1980s, zinnias were almost forgotten, grown only by those eccentric gardeners who grew their annuals from seed and liked bright Victorian colors. Now zinnias have regained their honored place as staples of the annual garden, and the world is a brighter place.
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Kale Flowers
Kale is a biennial. If you let some kale overwinter, it will give you cheery yellow mustard flowers in the spring, which will produce the seeds for another crop of kale.
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Plant Your Scallions
You buy a bundle of scallions, or green onions, or whatever they call them at your grocery, and you use half of them. What do you do with the other half? You can root them in water, or just stick them in the ground, and they will grow fat stalks with beautiful flowers that last for days in a vase.
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It’s Daylily Season